On Jun 5, 2006, at 8:30 AM, Terry Hancock wrote:
Alan Horkan wrote:
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Cory Pollard wrote: I realise there is something of a generation gap and some users really do prefer using web based forums for everything (as opposed to getting a better email client, or using news (NNTP) or anything else).
And so long as us curmudgeons insist on text-only email, that's likely to persist!
The truth is a web forum is much more suited to sharing graphical content, and that's what I like about the idea.
Well... that might be more of a matter of minor degrees.
So far, most of the people I've talked to requesting forums haven't brought up anything substantive that others can't get already. I've even used graphics-heavy, full HTML multipart mixed MIME newsgroups before supporting artistic communities (NNTP and all). In fact, with a nice NNTP client I can usually get better threading and faster reading than through a web interface.